Scintillating Iron

This annual celestial event, gifting us with the cosmic iron of
Michael, peaks tonight!

The Perseids begin as tiny specks of extra-terrestrial dust that hit Earth’s atmosphere at high speeds vaporizing from the friction with our atmosphere, leaving behind the streaks of light we call meteors. These dust particles were born in the comet known as 109P/Swift-Tuttle, which recently returned to the inner solar system in 1992. The giant planet Jupiter has nudged Swift-Tuttle’s debris stream closer to Earth’s orbit.

The best views will come in the predawn hours of 13 August 2019,
after the waxing gibbous Moon sets around 3 am CDT. The spectacle will continue to
improve as dawn approaches because the shower’s radiant — the spot on the
border between the constellations Perseus
& Cassiopeia where the meteors appear to emanate from — climbs higher.

As always, you’ll see more meteors at a viewing site far from any artificial lights. Look about two-thirds of the way from the horizon to the zenith, but don’t get tunnel vision gazing at one location. Let your eyes wander so your peripheral vision can pick up meteors you otherwise might not see.

This dose of cosmic iron is our perfect spiritual medicine, as these shooting stars awaken us; but we must take this medicine in consciously to strengthen our Michaelic impulse for the spiritual battle ahead.

Perseus is the cosmic starry imagination of Michael. He stands with sword of iron raised in one hand & in the other the decapitated head of Medusa with her serpent hair & eyes that turn all who gaze upon her to stone. He has rescued Andromeda, the chained princess, from the approaching sea monster Cetus. From the forehead of Andromeda springs the constellation Pegasus, the winged intelligence. This entire narrative contains deep imaginations of the work of Michael in the human being rescuing the threatened human soul from the destructive forces rising from the unconscious & the pastin the sea monster, & the deadening forces of Ahriman’s cold intellect in the gaze of Medusa.

A study of The Michael Mysteryby Rudolf Steiner can be a helping guide during this season. In it he states: “Hearts begin to have thoughts, that is the new way of thinking, with the heart.” It is Michael’s intention that in the future, intelligence will flow through human hearts & be connected to the same divine spiritual forces that created the human in the beginning of time.

Jim Lesure

If we use our imaginative cognition to inwardly picture this cosmic offering, we can carry the thought of Michael/Perseus in our heart-thinking, to consciously align with our Time-Spirit.

The Angel Standing in the Sun by JMW Turner

Let us make the intention to be awake to the power of the
Christ-Sun in the Earth, & the enlivening impulse of Anthroposophia within,
which thru our thinking hearts becomes enlightened by Wisdom, helping us
overcome the darkness with love.

“To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.” ~Rudolf Steiner

30 BC– Deathday of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra

1827 – Deathday of 1827 – William Blake, poet, painter, mystic

1831 – Birthday of Helena Blavatsky

1848 – Deathday of George Stephenson, Renowned as the “Father of Railways”, he was an English civil & mechanical engineer who built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives- considered a great example of diligent application & thirst for improvement

1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine

1875 – Helena Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in NY

1877 – Thomas Edison invented the phonograph & made the first sound recording

1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

1914 – The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit

1944 – Nazi
German troops end the week-long Wola
massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people were killed
indiscriminately or in mass executions

1955 – Deathday
of Thomas Mann, a German novelist,
short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, & the 1929
Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic & ironic epic
novels are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist & the
intellectual. His analysis & critique of the European & German soul
used modernized German & Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe,
Nietzsche & Schopenhauer

~I come with the comet
A priestess in the thought-skin of the lion
Spreading the roaring depth of myself out
Before friends & gods
To let them study me…
My ripened body is a rolled papyrus
Tied with red string that holds no pretense
Glow worms hide in the folds of my scroll
I am washed & ready for the new turning
Flashing with the hygienic iron-dust of shooting stars
Reborn in the cradle of my blood
~hag

***

“…And when in
high summer, from a particular constellation, meteors fall in great showers of
cosmic iron, then this cosmic iron,
which carries an enormously powerful healing force, is the weapon which the
gods bring to bear against Ahriman, as dragon-like he tries to coil round the
shining forms of men. The force which falls on the earth in the meteoric
iron is indeed a cosmic force whereby the higher gods endeavour to gain a
victory over the Ahrimanic powers, when autumn comes on. And this majestic display in cosmic space, when
the August meteor showers stream down into the human shining in the astral
light, has its counterpart — so gentle and apparently so small — in a change that occurs in the human blood.
This human blood, which is in truth not such a material thing as present-day
science imagines, but is permeated throughout by impulses from soul and spirit,
israyed through by the force which is carried as iron into the blood and
wages war there on anxiety, fear and hate. The processes which are set
going in every blood-corpuscle when the force of iron shoots into it are the
same, on a minute human scale, as those which take place when meteors fall in a
shining stream through the air. This
permeation of human blood by the anxiety-dispelling force of iron is a meteoric
activity. The effect of the raying in of the iron is to drive fear and anxiety
out of the blood.

And so, as the
gods with their meteors wage war on the spirit who would like to radiate fear
over all the earth through his coiling serpent-form, and while they cause iron
to stream radiantly into this fear-tainted atmosphere, which reaches its peak
when autumn approaches or when summer wanes — so the same process occurs
inwardly in man, when his blood is permeated with iron. We can understand these things only if we understand their inner
spiritual significance on the one hand, and if on the other we recognise how the
sulphur-process and the iron-process in man are connected with corresponding
events in the cosmos.

A man who looks
out into space and sees a shooting-star should say to himself, with reverence
for the gods: “That occurrence in the
great expanse of space has its minute counterpart continuously in myself. There
are the shooting-stars, while in every one of my blood-corpuscles iron is
taking form: my life is full of shooting-stars, miniature shooting-stars.”
And this inner fall of shooting-stars, pointing to the life of the blood, is
especially important when autumn approaches, when the sulphur-process is at its
peak. For when men are shining like
glow-worms in the way I have described, then the counter-force is present also,
for millions of tiny meteors are scintillating inwardly in their blood.

This is the connection between the inner man and the universe. And then we
can see how, especially when autumn is approaching, there is a great raying-out
of sulphur from the nerve-system towards the brain. The whole man can then be
seen as a sulphur-illuminated phantom, so to speak.

But raying into
this bluish-yellow sulphur atmosphere come the meteor swarms from the blood.
That is the other phantom. While the sulphur-phantom rises in clouds from the
lower part of man towards his head, the iron-forming process rays out from his
head and pours itself like a stream of meteors into the life of the blood.

Such is man, when Michaelmas draws near. And he must learn to make
conscious use of the meteoric-force in his blood. He must learn to keep the
Michael Festival by making it a festival for the conquest of anxiety and fear;
a festival of inner strength and initiative; a festival for the commemoration
of selfless self-consciousness…”

Sunday 15 Sept. 2-4pm: The Call for Self-Knowledge. How to Meet the Demands of Life?

Participants will benefit most from attending both sessions, as Gino intends to guide us in an imaginative picture over the weekend. However, if you cannot attend both sessions, you may still attend as your schedule allows.

There is no set fee to attend; suggested donation for the weekend is $50.

To reserve your spot, or for more information and the suggested reading list contact Hazel Archer-Ginsberg

*Gino Ver Eecke met Anthroposophy in his birth town of Roeselare, Belgium, at the young age of 16. After spending a year on a BioDynamic farm in Switzerland, he moved to Chestnut Ridge, NY, to complete his Eurythmy training. He has been active as an amateur actor, most notably in the role of Benedictus in the 10 day festival and performance of the Rudolf Steiner’s four Mystery Dramas in 2014. Currently he guides the work of the Threefold Branch of the Anthroposophical Society in Chestnut Ridge. He can be reached at gfbver@gmail.com

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2 thoughts on “Scintillating Iron”

“If you’re up before the Sun, look to the eastern horizon for a glimpse of the fleet planet Mercury [Occult Venus]. This innermost planet never strays very far from the Sun, so seeing him with the unaided eye is a feather in any skywatcher’s cap. The best time to look for him is about half an hour before sunrise, when he will be about 10 degrees above the horizon. This week the twin stars of Gemini, Castor and Pollux, serve as handy “pointers” to Mercury’s elusive glow.”

How perfect that you should share this, as i usually awaken around 5 am, & today i took my self to the Great Inland Sea to watch the sunrise, having been away from my sweet home Chicago, I did notice Mercury/Venus but failed to recognize dear Castor & Pollux. I will look for them tomorrow…
Blessings

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